During the first months of 1864, delegates of the United States Christian Commission, an organization established by Northern churches to minister to the spiritual and material needs of the soldiers, set up a tent in the Vermont Brigade of the Union's Army of the Potomac.
I think he is reminding the American people that our
ancestors fought hard to establish this country. He tells that we should proud of who we are
and where we come from and we should always defend the ideals of democracy both
here and abroad.
